{"id":195235,"date":"2008-07-21T17:41:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-21T22:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/07\/21\/administration-calls-for-congress-to-act-on-detainees-nytimes-com\/"},"modified":"2008-07-21T17:41:00","modified_gmt":"2008-07-21T22:41:00","slug":"administration-calls-for-congress-to-act-on-detainees-nytimes-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/07\/21\/administration-calls-for-congress-to-act-on-detainees-nytimes-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Administration Calls for Congress to Act on Detainees &#8211; NYTimes.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Mukasey, George Bush&#8217;s new bottom at the department of justice is now saying that allowing Gitmo detainees to actually be physically present in court to contest their detention would <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/07\/22\/washington\/22justice.html?hp\">constitute an &#8220;extraordinary risk&#8221;<\/a>, so Congress needs to act to prevent this.<\/p>\n<p>His proposal:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>All hearings heard in a single court (no doubt one particularly friendly to Bush and His Evil Minions<sup>\u2122<\/sup>).<\/li>\n<li>Detainees would remain in Gitmo for the hearings (meaning that they intend to keep the Gulag open).<\/li>\n<li>The courts would not be allowed to release the prisoner.<\/li>\n<li>The courts would not be allowed to delay trials.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>One hopes that the Dems have some backbone on this, but I doubt it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Mukasey, George Bush&#8217;s new bottom at the department of justice is now saying that allowing Gitmo detainees to actually be physically present in court to contest their detention would constitute an &#8220;extraordinary risk&#8221;, so Congress needs to act to prevent this. His proposal: All hearings heard in a single court (no doubt one particularly &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[971,998,970,972,1020],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-rights","category-congress","category-corruption","category-justice","category-legislation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195235"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195235\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}